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Ex-boss of Japan’s MHPS has foreign-bribery sentence reduced in Tokyo High Court appeal

By Toko Sekiguchi ( July 22, 2020, 04:52 GMT | Insight) -- The former head of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Satoshi Uchida, has had his 18-month suspended jail sentence for conspiring to bribe a Thai foreign official reduced to a fine of $23,400, after the Tokyo High Court yesterday found him guilty of a lesser offense. The court threw out a lower court’s earlier finding that Uchida had conspired with two other executives to pay the bribe of 11 million baht in 2015, worth around 40 million yen at the time.The former head of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems, Satoshi Uchida, has had his 18-month suspended jail sentence for conspiring to bribe a Thai foreign official reduced to a fine of 2.5 million yen ($23,400), after the Tokyo High Court yesterday found him guilty of a lesser offense....

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